Mailing a rifle to a gunsmith in 2023

[BRTreedogs]

Its the policy of ups.

Ups has said if they find a package containing firearms parts they will destroy it and deny your claim.

 

[Antares]

Ups has said if they find a package containing firearms parts they will destroy it and deny your claim.

Can you point me to where you're seeing that?

 

[SDHNTR]

You do not need to send to or from an ffl when sending your own action to a gunsmith. Stick the barreled action in a box and ship from ups. Tell them is contains sporting equipment or metal parts. Abbreviate the company name and you will have zero issues.

Exactly what I do.

 

[SDHNTR]

Its the policy of ups.

Ups has said if they find a package containing firearms parts they will destroy it and deny your claim.

What?

You just have to ship through a distribution hub.

 

[SDHNTR]

Well either UPS just changed its policy or it’s very loosely enforced. I just shipped a disassembled firearm about 4 weeks ago and I’m not an FFL. Dropped off at a UPS hub, zero issues. Guy asked me what was in the box, I said firearm parts. Off it went. Now I’m confused…

 

[BRTreedogs]

 

[BooneHunter]

I just went thru this and got the runaround from two different USPS postmasters saying they can’t ship from private individual even tho the policy is clear you can ship it for repair. UPS and FedEx were no help either.

I ended up driving it to smith. If I had to do it again I would box it up take it to my local FFL and just have him ship it. The smith working in your gun should be able to ship it back to your house at least.

 

[Fishermen0105]

I just went thru this and got the runaround from two different USPS postmasters saying they can’t ship from private individual even tho the policy is clear you can ship it for repair. UPS and FedEx were no help either.

I ended up driving it to smith. If I had to do it again I would box it up take it to my local FFL and just have him ship it. The smith working in your gun should be able to ship it back to your house at least.

That’s the postmaster not knowing the rules. It helps to bring a copy of the shipping regulations to a new post office. I’ve had this issue before and some will still refuse to ship until they see the regulations from usps.

 

[Pickettpuncher]

Central ups here gave me grief over a scope a few months ago. Said it was considered gun parts and unless you had a contract with them they wouldn’t ship them.

 

[Kurts86]

I used USPS for shipping an action for modification earlier this year.

A good number of shops now offer turn key mailing solutions where they ship you a box, a soft case and a shipping label and you use UPS to ship it to them. Basically because they label was generated from an FFL it is within their new rules.

 

[doc holiday13]

The gunsmith is an FFL but it sounds like ups and fedex wont accept a package from me since I am not.

That makes no sense. Just package up the item in a non descript box(if you've got gun and manufacturer labels all over it, you're asking for issues), slap the label on the side and drop it off with fedex. UPS and fedex deliver guns on the regular.

I literally had a rifle shipped to and from my gunsmith. Rifle came in saturday and I had to show my ID to sign for it.

 

[doc holiday13]

Central ups here gave me grief over a scope a few months ago. Said it was considered gun parts and unless you had a contract with them they wouldn’t ship them.

As long as you're not shipping something of hazard they don't need to know whats in the box. My last rifle I boxed up in a Ikea box

 

[doc holiday13]

I live in Oregon, and recently sent aChristiansen back for work. I had to send it from an FFL; then it had to be sent back to the FFL and I had to get a background check to get my own rifle back from the FFL.

Frustrating to say the least

Reason you had to do a background is because the FFL had to check in the firearm into their log book because the rifle was sent to them.

 

[BooneHunter]

That’s the postmaster not knowing the rules. It helps to bring a copy of the shipping regulations to a new post office. I’ve had this issue before and some will still refuse to ship until they see the regulations from usps.

I did exactly that and they still wouldn’t do it lol.

USPS 432.3.d

That’s the postmaster not knowing the rules. It helps to bring a copy of the shipping regulations to a new post office. I’ve had this issue before and some will still refuse to ship until they see the regulations from usps.

 

[Harvey_NW]

That makes no sense. Just package up the item in a non descript box(if you've got gun and manufacturer labels all over it, you're asking for issues), slap the label on the side and drop it off with fedex. UPS and fedex deliver guns on the regular.

I literally had a rifle shipped to and from my gunsmith. Rifle came in saturday and I had to show my ID to sign for it.

It's against both of their policies to ship firearms to or from non FFL holders now, so if anything happens to your mystery package and you have to make a claim, you're screwed. That's the issue.

 

[Fishermen0105]

I did exactly that and they still wouldn’t do it lol.

USPS 432.3.d

I’ve been there too. That’s when I found a new post office. I mostly go to the same one now especially mailing long guns.

Has anyone tried

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www.shipmygun.com

 

[Remington92]

Good lord I just left the post office. To mail the rifle in a cheap plastic gun case in a cardboard sleeve was going to be $175. I about fell over at the counter.

 

[Fishermen0105]

Good lord I just left the post office. To mail the rifle in a cheap plastic gun case in a cardboard sleeve was going to be $175. I about fell over at the counter.

That seems very high. I sent a barrelled action to idaho from texas for $23 via usps and cost $20 to get it back. That during Christmas 2022.

USPS has a shipping estimate online. Measure your box and weight it. Should get you very close.

 

[Remington92]

I may have try finding a box just big enough for the barreled action and let the smith figure out full sized packing on the way back

 

[Gunaddict]

A gunsmith does not need to return the rifle to a FFL dealer in Oregon. He can send the rifle back to you. I have received 2 custom builds this year from the gunsmith to my house. I did use a FFL to ship. .